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Youth (Homecoming)

2024 2h 32m Documentary List
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In YOUTH (HOMECOMING), as New Year's break is coming, Zhili's textile workshops are almost deserted. The few remaining employees are desperate to be paid for their trip home. From the banks of the Yangtze River to the mountains of Yunnan, everyone will be celebrating the festivities in their hometown, and performing the rituals of prosperity among their families. For Shi Wei, it's also the opportunity to get married, as it is for Fang Lingping.

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Leslie Felperin Hollywood Reporter The long, unbroken rhythm of Wang’s filmmaking somehow casts a spell, and he certainly has a good eye for characters. Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Anna McKibbin Little White Lies In his quest to stumble across moments of unpractised connection, Bing built a lovely structure for his film, which moves backwards through the stages in a relationship. Sep 9, 2024 Full Review Jonathan Romney Screen International Wang’s brutally revealing trilogy presents a challenging statement about working-class life, urban and rural, and urges us to think about economic exploitation and the nature of labour in the globalised world. Sep 7, 2024 Full Review Carlos Esquives Cinencuentro Because much of the story happens in provincial areas, the audience becomes a privileged observer of actions that have not yet been affected by modernity. It is a bittersweet farewell to the characters. [Full review in Spanish] Sep 16, 2024 Full Review Martin Tsai AwardsWatch Youth seems to resonate with critics precisely because it fits squarely into the acceptable narratives on China in the West: communism epic fail thanks to . . . capitalism? Rated: C Sep 8, 2024 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Bing’s trilogy presents a novel opportunity to observe rituals and behaviors under impossibly dysfunctional conditions, now from the vantage of a time capsule but without a sense much has changed in any positive regard. Rated: 3/5 Sep 7, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis In YOUTH (HOMECOMING), as New Year's break is coming, Zhili's textile workshops are almost deserted. The few remaining employees are desperate to be paid for their trip home. From the banks of the Yangtze River to the mountains of Yunnan, everyone will be celebrating the festivities in their hometown, and performing the rituals of prosperity among their families. For Shi Wei, it's also the opportunity to get married, as it is for Fang Lingping.
Director
Bing Wang
Producer
Sonia Buchman, Hui Mao, Nicolas R. de la Mothe, Vincent Wang
Screenwriter
Bing Wang
Production Co
House on Fire, Gladys Glover Films, CS Production
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Chinese
Runtime
2h 32m